Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks, المجلد 4Nathaniel Chapman Hopkins and Earle, 1807 |
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... allies ; unless we could be- hold without anxiety the rapid approaches of the same danger threatening the British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the ...
... allies ; unless we could be- hold without anxiety the rapid approaches of the same danger threatening the British dominions ; un- less we could sit at ease with the axe suspended over our heads , and wait with tranquillity of mind the ...
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... allies by the opening of the Scheldt , was justified upon no other ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was ...
... allies by the opening of the Scheldt , was justified upon no other ground than the main- tenance of the natural rights of the free people of Belgium ; when we recollect , that the final adjust- ment of that important question was ...
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... allies , and of having fomented a general war in Europe , I charge that crime equally upon both these sanguinary factions . But who is the British subject that shall acquit both these sanguinary factions of the crime which they mutually ...
... allies , and of having fomented a general war in Europe , I charge that crime equally upon both these sanguinary factions . But who is the British subject that shall acquit both these sanguinary factions of the crime which they mutually ...
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... allies . By the possession of Antwerp and the measures which she had taken relative to the naviga- tion of the Scheldt , she had the means of annoying Holland in that quarter ; the possession of Liege gave her the command of the Meuse ...
... allies . By the possession of Antwerp and the measures which she had taken relative to the naviga- tion of the Scheldt , she had the means of annoying Holland in that quarter ; the possession of Liege gave her the command of the Meuse ...
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... allies . Brissot says , that " the evacuation of Belgium tarnished the glory of the French arms , and retarded " what he calls " the liberty of Europe . " The Netherlands , recovered under such circumstances , have not only been ...
... allies . Brissot says , that " the evacuation of Belgium tarnished the glory of the French arms , and retarded " what he calls " the liberty of Europe . " The Netherlands , recovered under such circumstances , have not only been ...
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الصفحة 460 - With earth's wide bounds, his glory with the heavens.
الصفحة 460 - And all the rule, one empire ; only add Deeds to thy knowledge answerable; add faith, Add virtue, patience, temperance ; add love, By name to come call'd charity, the soul Of all the rest: then wilt thou not be loth To leave this Paradise, but shalt possess A paradise within thee, happier far.
الصفحة 423 - If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons...
الصفحة 423 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
الصفحة 445 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam...
الصفحة 383 - From the moment that any advocate can be permitted to say that he will or will not stand between the crown and the subject arraigned in the court where he daily sits to practice, from that moment the liberties of England are at an end.
الصفحة 458 - Christians, I cannot help lamenting that Newton had not lived to this day, to have had his shallowness filled up with this new flood of light. But the subject is too awful for irony. I will speak plainly and directly. Newton was a Christian ! Newton...
الصفحة 460 - This having learned, thou hast attained the sum Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the stars Thou knew'st by name, and all the ethereal powers, All secrets of the deep, all Nature's works, Or works of God in heaven, air, earth, or sea, And all the riches of this world...